Annual Self Examination
BIRTHDAY PORTRAIT

IN DOMESTIC BLISS
Taking a “”good hard look in the mirror” takes on a new dimension when it is for a self portrait. First of all, there is a lot more looking for much longer periods. The inquest goes beyond self recrimination or congratulations. There is the quest for perfect light and every new line and the relationship between the two. Settling on and capturing one fleeting moment of a glance, in chalk and oil and gold leaf. And composing and posing day after day, gaining insight and losing it to perfectionism and finally settling for a spark of life. For it is that spark and nothing else that makes the portrait art and the self an artist.